{"id":260849,"date":"2025-07-19T17:11:33","date_gmt":"2025-07-19T17:11:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/learnexams.com\/blog\/?p=260849"},"modified":"2025-07-19T17:11:35","modified_gmt":"2025-07-19T17:11:35","slug":"your-friend-finds-192-divided-by-6-by-writing-6-x-30-6-x-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.learnexams.com\/blog\/2025\/07\/19\/your-friend-finds-192-divided-by-6-by-writing-6-x-30-6-x-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Your friend finds 192 divided by 6 by writing (6 x 30) + (6 x 2)."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Your friend finds 192 divided by 6 by writing (6 x 30) + (6 x 2). She says the answer is 12. Is your friend correct? EXPLAIN!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-ast-global-color-1-color\">The Correct Answer and Explanation is:<\/mark><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>No, your friend is not correct. Let me explain why.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The expression your friend wrote, <strong>(6 \u00d7 30) + (6 \u00d7 2)<\/strong>, seems to be an attempt to break down the division into smaller parts. However, this method does not lead to the correct answer for 192 \u00f7 6.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Let&#8217;s break down the division properly:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>192 \u00f7 6 is the same as asking &#8220;how many times does 6 go into 192?&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>To solve this, you can either directly divide 192 by 6 or use long division. Doing the division:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>192 \u00f7 6 = 32<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Now, let\u2019s check your friend\u2019s approach:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>She wrote <strong>(6 \u00d7 30) + (6 \u00d7 2)<\/strong>. Let\u2019s simplify that:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>6 \u00d7 30 = 180<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>6 \u00d7 2 = 12<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>So, (6 \u00d7 30) + (6 \u00d7 2) = 180 + 12 = 192.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>While 192 is correct, this expression does not represent a division. Instead, it&#8217;s just a way to break down 192 into two parts, both of which are multiples of 6. However, this does not solve for the number of times 6 fits into 192.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>To sum up, the correct answer is <strong>32<\/strong>, not 12, and the method your friend used is not the correct way to perform division<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/learnexams.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/learnexams-banner6-1073.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-260852\"\/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Your friend finds 192 divided by 6 by writing (6 x 30) + (6 x 2). She says the answer is 12. Is your friend correct? EXPLAIN! The Correct Answer and Explanation is: No, your friend is not correct. Let me explain why. The expression your friend wrote, (6 \u00d7 30) + (6 \u00d7 2), [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-260849","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-exams-certification"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.learnexams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260849","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.learnexams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.learnexams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.learnexams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.learnexams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=260849"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.learnexams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260849\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.learnexams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=260849"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.learnexams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=260849"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.learnexams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=260849"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}